Posted on 08/10/2006 7:27:53 AM PDT by IPWGOP
Bailey's Briefing of the Day by CAPT Larry Bailey August 9, 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, Your fearless leader has just returned from six days in southwestern Pennsylvania, and I have to tell you that I am mightily encouraged by what I saw and experienced. To say that theres an undercurrent of anti-Murtha sentiment in his district is to grossly understate the casetheres a veritable RIPTIDE of disgust at what the man has become and what he has done, and were going to ride that tide until he is well and truly redeployed! I arrived in Pittsburgh on Aug. 2nd and immediately drove to Johnstown (via a rather circuitous route27 years as a SEAL apparently did not improve my overland navigation skills). I hit the ground running and immediately got involved in our first crisis management scenario. Our folks in Johnstown had learned that the Murtha bully-boys had planned to ambush our long-planned press conference by holding what they called a rally in the very same spot where the police had given us permission to hold our presser (as its called in the business). It was scheduled to start a half-hour ahead of the presser and last for 1 ½ hours. We thought and talked long and hard about how to deal with this situation, and we didnt really decide on our course of action until the morning of the presser. What we did was simply move one block down the street into a shaded parking lot and set up our little karaoke machine and portable lectern! The juxtaposition of our humble and tasteful event against the Murtha rally worked entirely to our advantage! As it turned out, the Murtha crowd (excluding the media) consisted of fewer than 100 souls (see the photo posted on the site), and it hardly justified his campaigns spending what must have been several thousand dollars in building a large speaker stage AND a media platform and in assembling a gazillion-decibel public address system! As you can see on this website, we did what we intended to doannounce our October 1st rally and answer media questions. The generally favorable response of both the printed and electronic media clearly indicates that our purposes were served. Even the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, no enemy of Murthas, published a very objective comparison of the two events. Check it out below. We done good! Accompanying me for the first three days of the trip was my old sidekick Mike Bradley, my favorite Florida Cracker, who continued to provide sound bites to those of us who were interviewed by the media in the following days. Mike has a knack for identifying those themes that resonate most with voterslike that of Murthas acceptance of an award from Code Pink, that ultra-left-wing spawn of the George Soros-Michael Moore crowd! Were going to ride that pony all the way to election day. Mike and I linked up with some local veterans and bikers organizations that have a lot of potential for supporting our effort in District 12. After Mike left me without adult supervision, I huddled with Nikki Sheppick, who has been our only salaried staffer, and we discussed everything from Operation Street Corner to our local advertising program. I also accepted Nikkis suggestion that we hire Laura Hough to assist her in organizing our OSC and advertising efforts. I met Laura, and shes going to knock em dead. Im going to pause here and make a crass commercial pitch: WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PAY NIKKIS AND LAURAS SALARIES AND TO LAUNCH OUR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN! Please get the word out! While we had a great inflow of contributions in the 24 hours after our press conference (about three thousand dollars from around fifty contributors), from that day to this weve only gotten a few hundred bucks from a handful of contributors. And let me point out to you that neither I nor any other core members of the Boot Murtha campaign have drawn one red cent; its a labor of passion. Your contributions go directly to our efforts, so please be generous! To those of you who continue to help us, THANK YOU! To those who just read our propaganda, PLEASE contribute if you can, and, if you cant, send our link to your friends! Nikki and Laura and I, along with the Johnstown team of Craig Minnick and Harry Beam, have conceptualized an advertising program to augment our efforts to put a couple thousand folks at the Boot Murtha Rally on October 1st. I cant tell you how pleased I am to have those folks aboard and running at 200% capacity! They are actively recruiting volunteers to set up OSC displays (www.operationstreetcorner.com) and making logistics arrangements for the rally. We are now looking for a public-relations person to provide guidance and coordination on the media front. Mark Parker, who did such an outstanding job on the press conference, was forced to leave us because of his job requirements, and that was a great loss. Surely someone will step up to the plate and replace him! Know anybody? I discussed the Boot Murtha campaign with PA volunteers and potential volunteers right up to the time I boarded my flight to Raleigh, and Im happy to say that, as I stated before, we have traction; its now a matter of gearing up for the long haul.
Hang with me!
Larry Bailey
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excellent report!
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Thanks, coop.
I'd like to ask for an informal roll call of those seriously considering attending the 1 October anti-Murtha rally. And please ping your lists to Larry's update.
Thanks for the report. Hopefully this goal of $12,500 for the ad will be wrapped up today, only $722 to go.
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This week is a liberal, wack-o cattle call.... MoveOn.org calling for $500,000 to run ads to pre-empt Vets For The Truth / Boot Murtha... and Michael Moore capitalizing on Joe Lieberman's defeat in the CT primary. Congressman John Murtha is the center point of Michael Moore's crazy corner:
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Looks like you, me and Larry may be holding our rally in a booth at a PA Denny's.
and 500 members of Rolling Thunder... !
Okay, but they'll have to leave their bikes outside. :-)
Thanks for your constant support
IMO there is no race in the House or Senate that is more important this year. When an elected official such as Murtha brazenly does the things he has, it's time for the people to stand up and say enough is enough. We are not a third world country and he is not a little Caesar even though he thinks of himself as such.
And you're willing to do something about it.
"Your fearless leader has just returned from six days in southwestern Pennsylvania, and I have to tell you that I am mightily encouraged by what I saw and experienced. To say that theres an undercurrent of anti-Murtha sentiment in his district is to grossly understate the casetheres a veritable RIPTIDE of disgust at what the man has become and what he has done, and were going to ride that tide until he is well and truly redeployed!"
CAPT Larry Bailey
President, Vets For The Truth
http://www.bootmurtha.com
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